Episodes
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A message from a listener sparks a conversation about ways we’ve been surviving the spectacle that has been the 2024 presidential election. In between screaming into the void and talking ourselves off a ledge, we share anecdotes from past elections and laugh through the pain. Take a deep breath and…enjoy?
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @lauren__afh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We discuss listener responses to the question “What are you in denial about?” Topics include the pitfalls of awareness, chronic mental illness, romanticizing your bad choices, and why harm reduction will fix everything. We also tell stories about shoplifting. Enjoy?
If you want to read the full essay that was published in response to this poll, you can find it on Kiki Walter’s Substack!
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @lauren__afh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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As promised, we’re changing it up this week with a movie review for spooky season! We watched The Stepford Wives (1975) with our friend Orion and talked about the horrors of patriarchy, mental illness and capitalism, the dark underbelly of psychiatry, 70s fashion, modern parallels, and more. Enjoy!
Got thoughts on this film? See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @picosauve
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We continue our conversation about acceptance, this time exploring the other side of the coin: denial. Topics include blackout stories, health updates for Pico and Christina, why Lauren hates DBT, panic attacks, and some brutal honesty. We also dig through old treatment materials and find a fatalistic (yet hilarious?) quiz. Enjoy!
Got thoughts on this topic? See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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In which we accept that we don’t always know what we’re talking about…but that’s OK! This week, we touch on control, denial, giving up, pain versus suffering, disappointment, mindfulness in a crisis, and forgiving ourselves. Tangents include rehoming pets, Benadryl, and DND. Enjoy!
Sources:
* Radical Acceptance in a Time of Uncertainty
Got thoughts on this topic? See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We discuss listener responses to the question “How do you overthink your mental health?” Topics include going through the motions, not prioritizing your health, when to push through discomfort, and when to honor your feelings. Plus, Lauren avoids politics with her family and Christina has a disability update. Enjoy!
Thank you for all who contributed this week! See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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Joining the podcast this week is Christina’s friend Effie, who talks about gender, polyamory, anti-capitalism, forming a chosen family from scratch, and so much more! Tangents include the Ren faire, graduating therapy, codependency, and a cat update.
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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In which we are incredibly self-aware and ask ourselves whether we do more harm or good by making mental health our every waking thought. Tangents include Lauren’s show, Christina’s depression, the devil, and voicemails. Enjoy!
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We discuss listener responses to the question “What did you miss out on in childhood?” Tangents include mourning lost opportunities, not being allowed to fail, parentification, curiosity, and realizing you were just a kid all along. Enjoy!
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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Christina makes Lauren read a pop psychology article and we discuss whether “Hurried Child Syndrome” is actually a thing. Topics include responsibility, perfectionism, cyclical trauma, therapy approaches, and more. Plus we’ve got voicemails, a disastrous work story from Lauren, and an attempted coup by Christina’s cats. Enjoy!
Sources:
* 3 Signs You ‘Grew Up Too Fast,’ According To A Psyschologist (Mark Travers, Forbes)
* The Hurried Child Syndrome (Pallavi R Mangrule, International Journal of Research in Paediatric Nursing)
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We discuss a controversial 1994 Lifetime movie about anorexia and find ourselves relating more than we’d like to admit. Tangents include maternity leave, To the Bone, Jennette McCurdy, and a floof war. Enjoy!
Trigger warning: This episode goes into our real life experiences with eating disorders as well as the way anorexia is brutally (realistically?) portrayed on the screen. Listen at your own discretion.
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Subscribe to our Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Follow our Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Join our Facebook group: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Send us an email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We temporarily set aside our professionalism and spend Lauren’s birthday episode shooting the sh*t. Tangents include moving disasters, disclosing our weight at the DMV, poems inspired by pets who have passed, Hallmark movies about eating disorders, and—you guessed it—vaping. We’ll be back next week with our regular content, but in the meantime…enjoy?
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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Our friend Chris joins the podcast to talk about sobriety, writing, art, and lowering expectations when it comes to mental health and recovery. Tangents include toxic positivity, lists, and NaNoWriMo. Enjoy!
This episode features Christopher Robin. Here are some ways to follow him:
* Substack: Christopher Robin’s Nebulous
* Instagram: @christopher_robin79
* Etsy: ChristopherRobinArt
* Medium: Christopher Robin
* Podcast: The Unfocused Writer (on hiatus)
See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We discuss listener responses to the question “Do you feel like you have an identity?” Tangents include Christina’s birthday, fear of happiness, disability, queerness, and books. A visitor makes a surprise appearance. Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who answered our pickle poll! See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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This week, we talk about past and present ways we’ve defined ourselves and the impact our identities have on our life experiences. Topics include body dysmorphia, making your mental illness your identity, personal style, and a special roleplaying segment where we respond to the question “What do you do?” Enjoy!
Next week, we’ll be sharing your thoughts on this topic! See below for ways to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We share results from the latest pickle poll and discuss your answers! Tangents include Lauren’s new apartment, Christina’s latest hobby, podcasting naked, and finding joy in recovery.
How to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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This one goes out to anyone feeling stuck in the cycle of self-sabotage. Topics include lapses vs relapses, what maintenance means to us, Benadryl, going through the motions, and vaping. Content warning for suicidal ideation and discussions of weight loss (no numbers).
How to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's other podcast: field notes from crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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We share results from the latest pickle poll and discuss your answers! Tangents include Lauren’s good news, Christina’s safety plan, and whether money can actually buy happiness. Apologies for Meatball.
Content warning for suicide talk.
How to follow us and join in the conversation:
* Substack: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Christina's Substack: crisis corner
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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In which two self-described mentally ill outsiders discuss friendship. Subtopics include online friends, accidental enabling, ways we stay lonely, and friendship green flags. Enjoy!
ANSWER THE PICKLE POLL by subscribing for free and joining our chat!
How to follow us and join the conversation:
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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This time last year, Lauren was in treatment and Christina was on the verge of a breakdown. Were we just going through the motions? Is there even a point? We’ll let you decide.
Tangents include cocaine, asking for help, malicious burritos, letting people surprise you, and the meaning behind Lauren’s Instagram handle. Content warning for eating disorders, addiction, and suicidal ideation.
How to follow us and join the conversation:
* Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast
* Facebook: Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
* Email: [email protected]
* Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
* Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh
* Send us spoons AKA buy us a coffee!
Credits:
* Original 6/14/2023 episode: #127 Field Notes From Reality
* Edited by Christina Jumper
* Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines from Free Music Archive
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